Daniel Craig: 'Toned-down Girl with the Dragon Tattoo pointless'

The James Bond actor said he was pleased that director David Fincher remained faithful to the controversial topics addressed in Stieg Larsson's novel.

"The first question I asked was, 'Is this going to be a PG-13? Is it going to be a movie for everyone?'," he revealed to The Sun. "I just would see no point in making a version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to take the children to see.

"This movie deals with forbidden or difficult subject matters. It deals with violence towards women, it touches upon Nazism, and all the suppression of Nazism in a country where maybe there hasn't been a lot of discussion. And it's those subject matters that interest me."

On his character Mikael Blomkvist, Craig added: "He's flawed, he's an egotist, but he's got a very strong moral center. He doesn't bulls**t with women, with his work colleagues.

"His ego gets in the way, I think, sometimes. Maybe he's got a Jesus Christ complex, like most men. And that's his downfall."